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New Delhi, February 27 The Supreme Court on Friday allowed a plea by Vikas Yadav, who is serving a 25-year prison sentence without remission for the murder of businessman Nitish Katara in 2002, seeking to be released from prison on furlough.A bench of Justices MM Sundresh and Vipul M Pancholi...

Islamabad, February 26 A Pakistani high court has fixed March 11 for the hearing of appeals by incarcerated former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi seeking the suspension of their sentence in the Al-Qadir Trust corruption case.The former couple were convicted in January 17...

Berhampur (Odisha), February 18 A POCSO court in Berhampur, Odisha, on Wednesday sentenced a 28-year-old man to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping a 13-year-old girl four years ago, a government counsel said.Additional district judge and POCSO special court judge Pranati Pattnaik...

Azamgarh (UP), February 18 A court here has sentenced 12 people to life imprisonment in a 27-year-old murder case linked to Shia-Sunni riots in Mubarakpur in the district, officials said on Wednesday.District and Sessions Judge Jai Prakash Pandey pronounced the sentence on Tuesday after...

Prayagraj (UP), February 17 The Allahabad High Court has acquitted three men, who were convicted for robbery in 1983.The court acquitted them on Monday in a case of robbery that allegedly took place in 1982.Justice Avnish Saxena found inconsistencies in the testimonies of the witnesses and...

New Delhi, February 17 – The Supreme Court on Tuesday scheduled a final hearing in April for a batch of appeals filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) challenging the suspension of sentence granted to former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav and other convicts in the fodder scam...

New Delhi, February 17 A life convict who had been on the run since 2021 after escaping from prison was arrested near Delhi's Anand Vihar Railway Station, police said on Tuesday.The accused, Robin Tamang alias Jojo (45), was convicted of killing his friend in 2013 during an argument...

Gurugram, February 16 An excise and taxation inspector, who was sentenced to five years in prison in a bribery case, has been dismissed from service, an official said on Monday.According to the official, a recommendation has been sent to the Haryana government for the dismissal of an excise...

Jodhpur, February 16 Justice Baljinder Singh Sandhu of the single bench of the Rajasthan High Court recused himself from hearing the appeals of Bollywood actor Salman Khan and the state government in the blackbuck poaching case on Monday.Salman was accused of hunting two blackbucks in the...

Nainital, February 16 The Uttarakhand High Court has overturned the conviction of two men in a gang-rape case, citing a lack of conclusive medical and forensic evidence.In a judgment delivered on February 12, a division bench comprising Justices Ravindra Maithani and Ashish Naithani upheld the...

Singapore, February 16 A man of Indian origin was sentenced to nine months in prison by a Singapore court on Monday after he pleaded guilty to impersonating a prison officer in an email sent to President Tharman Shanmugaratnam and the Secretariat of the Singapore Parliament.Prakash...